Barry Harris At The Jazz Workshop

Barry Harris At The Jazz Workshop

This album launched Barry Harris on what has become one of the most respected, long-lasting, and influential careers in modern jazz. But in one sense it was a sequel to the most hugely successful live jazz recording of its period, the 1959 Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco. The club was the same; so was the record label and producer. It was just seven months later; Cannonball and band were back in town–but this was their night off, and although this was their rhythm section, the featured pianist was quite different. In place of superfunky Bobby Timmons, there was Harris, then a brilliant disciple of the Bud Powell school, newly but permanently enticed out of Detroit and into the post-bop mainstream.